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Italian court imposes a 1.1 billion-euro fine against Amazon

A ruling on Tuesday showed that an Italian administrative court reduced the 1.13 billion-euro fine ($1.32billion) imposed by Italy's Competition Authority in 2021 for alleged abuses of a dominant role.

The Lazio Administrative Court upheld the main findings of the regulator but said that the amount of fine needed to be recalculated. They argued that the watchdog hadn't adequately explained why they included a discretionary increase by 50%.

The revised figure was not specified in the ruling.

Calculations show that subtracting the 50% surcharge and the original 1,13 billion euro would result in an overall fine of around 725 million euros.

Amazon has not yet commented on the decision.

The company was initially fined for restricting the competition in ecommerce logistics services in Italy. It was at the time one of the largest penalties ever imposed in Europe on a U.S. technology giant.

(source: Reuters)